 Hi, my friends call me Lyme and as usual I want to help you perform even better in your videos and This time I want to talk about collaborations. We all know what a collaboration is Hopefully you get together with another creator and you make beautiful videos together. And collaborations are important because as George says it is one of the fastest way to grow there is Something that I would like to discuss though too often I see people in the comments or in the chats going hey anybody want to clap and If I am to be completely honest with you whenever I see that I React the same way that I react when I see people going sub to my channel, please I Mean you didn't even bother to tell us what you do And maybe you're thinking that people seeing your message are going to click their way to your channel to find that out But the reality is that they're not going to do that not if your post doesn't do anything to earn it and Also, neither did you tell us what kind of person that you want to collaborate with Which makes me wonder Do you want to collaborate with just anyone regardless of? Interests opinions personality age and regardless of what target audience that person has And furthermore neither did you tell us what you want to do as a collaboration? So do you just want to make a video any video just for the sake of making a video? First of all, I'm sorry, but that does not sound very interesting to me and second of all What if you did that in other situations? And yeah, I know people recommend you to do collaborations because it makes you grow but Doing collaborations just because you want to grow is like making videos just because you want to become famous so if this applies to you then your challenge is to think your requests for collaborations through a little more before posting because Because people who might actually be looking for collaborations only have your post to go on before deciding whether to check you out or not and If this doesn't apply to you, then I mean why not play around with more ideas for For collaborations, so then let's look at some solutions. First of all Let your main motivator for your videos be One of your fires and if you don't know what I mean by that then check out my episode about finding your fire Here I could summarize it by saying that it is something that fuels you that is not money or fame and Second of all think it through before you ask What do you want to do as a collaboration? And why how does that add something new to your channel? And what type of target audience do you want to reach and what type of person would fit such a collaboration the best and Thirdly now it's time to look for someone to collaborate With and if you don't already have somebody in mind then why not go to the forums or the chats and get to know people Make friends Find out what people do when who you have chemistry with I mean you want the situation where you both make each other shine and Then you just contact the person you think would fit your collaboration the best Sometimes though you don't want a fixed idea before you start talking to people Sometimes the best thing is to first find somebody that you have chemistry with and then you come up with ideas for collaborations together with that person And that way you can see too that you that you both get equally much Out of the collaboration. So basically you just do what I said earlier, but just in reverse So these are just things of the top of my head There are probably other good solutions. The only thing that I'm really asking for here is that when you're asking for collaborations You you give it some love With that said, thank you so much for watching. Bye